In case you were scratching your head at the title, I'm not sure if this is an actual saying but a buddy of mine used to use the "red-headed step child" when talking about abuse or neglect. As in, "you better stop fuckin' with me or I'm gonna beat you like a red-headed step child." Shit like that.
Anyways, in my daily perusing of various hockey websites I noticed something...yet again. The Flyers had a spectacular game last night, with just 5 players not making it on the score sheet, on their way to an 8-1 mushroom stamping of the Canes. But for some reason, the papa network of them all NHL.com, decided it wasn't really news worthy. No, instead they decided to put up an article on how Ovechkin and Semin were scoreless going into their 3rd period last night. In fact, only one of the websites that I regularly look at (prohockeytalk.com) had anything about the game last night...and it was about carty's natty hat trick.
Needless to say this pissed me off a bit. As a Flyers fan I'm used to getting shit on by the league and having virtually everyone else in the hockey world hate me but that's what makes us so great...everyone, including the NHL hates us and we just don't give a shit. But still, it made me wonder...what do we have to do to get a little recognition? Just a little.
As it stands right now, the Flyers are in 2nd place in the East and in 3rd in the entire league. They're currently on an 8 game point streak and have a rookie, Russian goaltender that doesn't speak English. But still, no news about the orange&black. It seems like the league only ever gives us a glance is when they want to suspend our players or they disallow goals. I'm willing to bet if the Flyers actually go back to they finals and win this time, the league will engrave the Capitals name on the trophy just like they did last year with the Prince of Whales Trophy
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Update: it's Wales not Whales
100% agree on this. btw it's Wales not Whales.
ReplyDeletewow dude good catch....i even google'd it to see if there was an 'h' and i still fucked it up. im in need of some sleep i think
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